t 37 ED ROSE BABY BEEF CLUB membei s and their families look on and listen as v Agent, Max Smith gives Terry Petti coffer, son of Mr and Mrs Ammon Petticof lizabethtown R 3, instructions on the feeding and care of his show steer." Smith, back iera pointed out the good points and possible improvements that could be made lorn stopped at ten farms during the day. —L. F. PHOTO Ho County Groups Tour ■rms Of Associates Hncaster County farmers Hi on tours Wednesday. Hral hundred farmers and Hi families went on two H$ through the Garden Has the Poultry Associa- Hheld its annual event Hthe Red Rose Baby Beef Club invited par- Bin, Cold Nights Are. Blamed Ir Poor Honey Production Hnless Lancaster County Ha heavy flow of honey H> goldenrod, and wild Hk, many bees in the Hden Spot will have to oe H artificial feed to get Hi through the winter, the opinion of W. W. extension bee spe- horn Penn State Uni- H%' as he spoke to co- HRM Calendar ■ * If. - 4-H Judging H Demo ’•ation days at ■Wmsylvai .d State Um ■ttsity. ■I 8, 8 p . Meeting of m Count Soil Conser- H“ on Di net Directors H ** le D Court BHise Pm - Meeting of the Farm Show As- R? tlon Directors in the H™ School. H, p 8 p m - Meeting of HEhrabothtown - Done- V 4-H dub HL 10 ■ All day State contest on the H!r °t Frank Dice, five V ‘‘ vt Chainbers- Hj*? *' hnnheim Cent- HI. -inni'a! project H*iooi meo ' ct the H ' gh HJ. 1 ’ 1 u m - County To ou' begins at the " 111 Field Crop H^^* 1 Laboratory near K m ' - Manheim H) j o!llll ’unity club me- HiW 11h ‘ home' of Wm. H ... 1)1 Oregon * Slate Gladiolus Hpjn al u T ershey ' Landrace Swine the Martin Sales Hfii „ Route 23 and 322 H Blue Ball ents and friends to join in in specting club' steers. The over 200. beef feeders and friends visited the home farms of 22 club' members and saw more than 25 steers being fattened and trained for the fall shows. All the (Turn to page 5) unty beekeepers 'Tuesday mght. The cool nights and the (Turn to page 10) W. W. CLARKE, BEEKEEPING SPECIALIST, shows members of the county Beekeepers Assn a frame with very little honey in it. John Lapp, Bareville, president of the association is in the background as Clarke tells the group cool nights-and rainy weather have combined to reduce honey in many parts of the state The bees in the colony in front of Clarke were in good health, bm they did not have any honey stored. Some bees will have to be fed in order to get through the winter. Clarke told the group at the Tuesday evening meeting. — l* F PHOTO Lancaster, Pa., Saturday, August 6, 1960 Farmers From Ky. TourGardenSpoi Over thirty farmers from Kentucky toured the Garden Spot county Tuesday to stu dy conservation practices on four county farms. The farmers also toured the New Holland Machine company before leaving .on Tuesday mght for a visit at the United States Depart ment of Agriculture in Wash ington, D. C. The group was traveling under the auspices of the Soil Conservation Service and the Agriculture Exten sion service of the Univer (Tarn to page 12) County Dairy Showmen Take Two Championships Lancaster County dairy men captured two of the five grand championship ribbons awarded this week at the ninth Southeastern Pennsyl vania Artificial Breeders Co operative cattle show. Garden spot entries in the Ayrshire and Guernsey breeds took the top spots while the Jersey crown went to Chester County, the Brown Swiss title was taken by a York County Cow, and a Black and white three-year old cow from Franklin Co. took the Holstein honors. Wednesday night, Moun tain Valley Dixie Royal, an Ayrshire owned and shown by Milton Brubaker, Lititz Rl, beat out another Lancas ter County entry for the ros ette, and went on to be nam ed Grand champion after picking up the senior champ ionship. Glenhurst Bambi, exhibit ed by Marilyn R. Harmsh, Quarryville R 2, collected the junior championship on the way to the reserve spot. * Thursday afternoon - the Guernsey entry of Raymond and Louise Witmer, Willow Street Rl, collected the top spot after taking her class and senior- championship hon ors. Penn-Del King’s Anna beat out runner up Har-Len K. Lola, the junior champion show by Karl Bender, Lan disville. The Junior yearling Hol stein of Richard Umble, At glen, was the runner up to the three-ye«r-old holstein County Boy On Trip To AIC in California A Lancaster County farm boy left yesterday for Calif ornia and his first ride on a jet plane. Winner of the contest sponsored by the county co uncil of Parmer Cooperati ves, Darvin Boyd, Ephrata DARVIN BOYD El, left Iho York-Hanisbui g airpoit at 4.45 Fuday after noon on the fix’st leg of a flight taking him all the way to Berkley, California for 'ix days of sight seeing and educational meetings at the annual American Institute of Cooperation. Boyd, son of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Boyd, beat out 102 other applicants in the con test to win a shot at the $2 Per Year cow owned and exhibited by Reuben Locke of Lemasters. Both Brown Swiss champ ionships went to York Coun ty breeders. Adrienne Luck enbaugh of Spring Grove showed her junior calf to the junior champ’s spot while the aged cow of Wilson Glat felter took the senior and grand championships. The junior championship m, the Jersey competition went to a County breeder as Tom Halladay, Jr showed S. F. Challenger Suzette, a jun ior yearling, to the runnerup spot behind the three year old cow from the herd of Charles Wollaston, Toughke namon. Some 2000 spectators watched the 175 exhibitors put nearly 400 head of fine dairy cattle through their paces during the two day ev ent. Judges G M. Cairns, Dean of Agriculture at the Univer sity of Maryland, and George Newhn, Manager of Hill Girt Farms, Chadds Ford, placing the cattle under the Danish system gave out over 130 blue ribbons and divided approximately $3,500 in prize money among the exhibitors, Harvey Worthington, West Chester; Herman Stebbins, York; Lester Jacobs, Hanov er; and Roger L. Emig, Field Supervisor, SPABC, Lancast er served as the show com mittee. Blue ribbon winners and (Turn to page 9) state contest. Samuel Ever hart of the Center-Clearfield area won the state contest, but the local council decided to send the county winner to the A.I.C. along with the state delegation. Boyd is scheduled to set down at Pittsburgh Friday night where he will parti cipate in an orientation ses sion with 19 other delegates from the state. On Satur day the delegation will join with the participating you ths from Indiana at O’Hare field in Chicago where they will board a jet plane and fly non-stop to San Francis co. After a bus tour of San (.Turn to page 12) FIVE - DAY : WEATHER ! ; FORECAST Saturday - Wednesday Temperatures for the next live days will average Near normal to five de grees below normals of 85 in the afternoon and 65 ai night. Somewhat cooler temperatures are expected over the week end with a slowly rising trend there after . Chance of showers by Tuesday or Wednesday will probably average less than Vi inch. The 1.77 in ches of rain last Saturday brought the July total to 5.85, about 1U inches a bove normal.
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